It's Mango season!

We recently took a road trip with some friends through the town of Concordia where we found fruit stands along side the road selling mangos. They were incredibly cheap. A box of about 20 huge mangos for $20 pesos or $2 US. They were just delicious. Here is an interesting site with lots of information on mangos in Mexico. I learned how to cut a mango from this site. Very helpful. http://www.tyid.net/projects/mango/media/Foodservice_info.html

The pictures in this post are of the mango fruit stand and a river that the locals near Concordia enjoy this time of year to cool off in. You can also see from the picture of the donkey how green this area is. This is the rainy season and all the terrain is very lush and green now.

We drove on to the small ancient mining town of Copala. It is about an hour and 15 minutes from Mazatlan. We had lunch there and enjoyed the ambiance of a town where time seems to have stood still. Here is a little information we found on these two towns.

The Spanish discovered Copala in 1565 and worked its mines in their early days of conquest. Copala is an old mining town at an elevation over 2,000 feet. It meets most tourists' expectations of what a typical colonial Mexican village would look like. Concordia was founded in 1571 and is surrounded by orchards and coconut, mango, and banana plantations. It is a center for the cottage industries of ceramic tile, pottery, and hand-carved furniture. The town also has an interesting zocalo (main plaza), and its San Sebastian Baroque-style church, built in the 1640s, is the oldest of its kind in Sinaloa.